The right owed to God by His servants: Unbelievers incur punishment in hell but this does not negate granting them benefits in this life.
It is God’s right to be the only one offered all types of worship. He says: ‘Your God is the One God: there is no deity but He, the Lord of Grace, the Ever Merciful’.
The right owed to God by His servants: Unbelievers incur punishment in hell but this does not negate granting them benefits in this life.
It is God’s right to be the only one offered all types of worship. He says:
‘Your God is the One God: there is no deity but He, the Lord of Grace, the Ever Merciful’. (2: 163)
It is His right that no one else should be associated with Him in any act of worship, whether mental, verbal or physical. He says:
‘Worship God alone and do not associate any partners with Him’. (4: 36)
Associating partners with God obliterates every good action a human being does. God says to the Prophet:
‘It has been revealed to you, and to those before you, that if you ever associate partners with God all your works shall certainly come to nothing and you shall certainly be among the lost’. (39: 65)
These are God’s words to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and they certainly apply to everyone else.
God does not forgive the association of partners with Him unless one genuinely repents: ‘
For a certainty God does not forgive that partners are associated with Him. He forgives any lesser sin to whomever He wills’. (4: 48)
‘Those who disbelieve and bar others from the path of God, and in the end die unbelievers, shall not be granted forgiveness by God’. (47: 34)
Whoever dies an unbeliever will be in the Fire. God says:
‘Whoever of you renounces his faith and dies an unbeliever, his works shall come to nothing in this world and in the world to come. Such people are destined for hell, wherein they shall abide’. (2: 217)
‘Those who reject the faith and die unbelievers shall incur the curse of God, the angels and all mankind’. (2: 161)
An unbeliever may bring benefit to people during his life, which is something God enables him to do as He brings about all types of benefit to His creation. He makes the sun, the moon, winds, clouds, etc. yield their benefit, which is greater, to mankind. To disbelieve is to reject God, not nature; and God’s punishment of an unbeliever is for denying God His rights, not denying the rights of nature.